Beginners questions about Xaraya

Hello all,

I've recently discovered Xaraya and managed to install it ok. I see that 
it has a wopping 300+K text file documentation which is quite impressive 
which is currently work in progress. Unfortunately its a little bit 
sparse on basics for an absolute beginner such as myself, so I'm hoping 
that you guys can answer some questions for the docs to make some sense 
to me.


1 What are the basic bulding blocks of Xaraya? How do they interopperate?

2 What is a Template?

3 What is a Publication Type?

4 Are Templates and Publication Types related? How?

5 How are artilces sorted into sections/catagores/topics?

6 How, and by what, are articles displayed?

7 What do Catagories do? Are they the only way of sorting articles or 
just an example?

8 Do articles need to be sorted into a simple heirarchy or can they be 
sorted into a multidimensional aray with each article fitting into 
several independent heirarchies simultaneously or using catagory flags 
instead of a heirarchy at all?

9 Are there any other basics I need to know about?


Thanks in advance for all your help :-)

SpiritTech